Innovations in Smart Learning [Paperback]

The book aims to provide an archival forum for researchers, academics, practitioners, and industry professionals interested and/or engaged in the reform of the ways of teaching and learning through advancing current learning environments towards smart learning environments. It facilitates opportunities for discussions and constructive dialogue among various stakeholders on the limitations of existing learning environments, need for reform, innovative uses of emerging pedagogical approaches and technologies, and sharing and promotion of best practices, leading to the evolution, design and implementation of smart learning environments. The focus of the contributions in this book is on the interplay of pedagogy, technology and their fusion towards the advancement of smart learning environments. Various components of this interplay include but are not limited to:
? Pedagogy: learning paradigms, assessment paradigms, social factors, policy;
? Technology: emerging technologies, innovative uses of mature technologies, adoption, usability, standards, and emerging/new technological paradigms (open educational resources, cloud computing, etc.);
? Fusion of pedagogy and technology: transformation of curriculum, transformation of teaching behavior, transformation of administration, best practices of infusion, piloting of new ideas.Elvira Popescu is an Associate Professor at the Computers and Information Technology Department, University of Craiova, Romania. She is in charge of two BSc courses (Web Applications' Design, Multimedia Technologies in e-Learning) and two MSc courses (Semantic Systems, Web Services Technologies). She is also a member of the Multimedia Applications Development Research Center, University of Craiova. Her current research interests include technology enhanced learning, adaptation and personalization in Web-based systems, Web 2.0 and social learning environments, learning analytics, intelligent and distributed computing. Sl³|